Moving with Your Whole Self
We tend to think of ourselves as a collection of parts. When our neck, lower back or hip hurts, we look for immediate solutions to that particular problem, usually focussing…
Under-Standing Your Feet
Stand on your own (two) feet This phrase means to become self reliant or independent if someone says that to us. True enough, our feet support us in nearly all…
Choices for Change: Feldenkrais for Thinking
More than just a movement lesson To an onlooker observing a Feldenkrais class, it may appear that it is simply a movement lesson. However, the intention of the lesson is…
Learning Through Movement
Learning New Skills When we were children, the world was our oyster. We were always learning new things and developing new skills to help us survive in the world that…
Healing through Movement
The Definition of Movement “Nothing happens until something moves.” - Dr Albert Einstein When we think about movement, we tend to think of physical movement. Our attention gets drawn to…
What is this F-word
Felden-what? Last week, I introduced myself in a Facebook group. I had to say what I did for a living but I deliberately did not explain what it was. A…
Move Well, Feel Well, Live Well
Elevator Pitch I had my first meeting with a business advisor the other day. He asked me what I did. My mouth opened and shut like a goldfish - wordless.…
Making the Impossible Possible
Necessity is the Mother of Invention This morning my partner left his mobile phone at home. As a freelance self employed musician, his phone is his whole life – his…
Feldenkrais and the Art of Listening
The Art of Listening Do you feel sometimes that people don’t really listen when you’re talking? They seem to have their own agenda and steer the conversation to what they…
Liberate Your Music Making
In early April Yeu Meng Chan and Josephine Horder ran a weekend workshop at Benslow Music titled ‘Liberate your Music Making with the Feldenkrais Method’. After two and a half…